![]() ![]() Her classmates don't want to be friends with her due to her strange behavior. ![]() She likes to hide from the rest of the world under the dresser belonging to Devon. She is awkward and pedantic, seeing things in black and white, and referring to her deceased brother as "Devon who is dead" when talking to her father.Ĭaitlin's behaviors are perceived as "weird". Due to Caitlin's condition, she finds it difficult to cope with her feelings about what has happened. Her older brother Devon has just been killed, along with a teacher and another student, in a tragic school shooting. The book centers around the girl whose brother was killed in a school shooting.ġ0-year-old Caitlin Smith has Asperger’s syndrome and is preoccupied with drawing and dictionaries. In 2012 it was awarded the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award. National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Mockingbird is a young adult novel by American author Kathryn Erskine about a girl with Asperger's syndrome coping with the loss of her brother. ![]()
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